It's almost Halloween, so dust off your tacky ornaments and your weird and wonderful costumes and start getting into the spooky spirit. Here, we have five of our favourite Halloween-themed assets for photo and video, as well as some of our top tips, to help your project have maximum impact.

Freak out your friends and
family by turning them (or you!) into a scary-looking vampire. The Adobe Photoshop action pack
contains ten options so you can play around with the result to get something a
little different every time.

Who doesn’t love pumpkins? They’re adorable, and whether you
just like eating them in the autumn, or prefer to carve out your own lantern,
they’re a big part of this time of year for many of us. Try Pumpkin’s Brush font
to add some fun to your autumnal projects this year.

Clowns. Urgh. The perfect,
creepy Halloween frightener, use this Photoshop action to turn portraits into
clowns. It comes with ten different colour options, but who cares: anything you
choose will be seriously creepy.